Report: Arenas, Crittenton of Washington Wizards pull guns on each other

View full size(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)Washington Wizards' Gilbert Arenas, left, argues with referee Tom Washington in the second quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Phoenix Suns, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, in Phoenix. Arenas reportedly pulled a gun on a Wizards teammate.

NEW YORK -- Washington Wizards teammates Gilbert Arenas
and Javaris Crittenton drew guns on each other during a Christmas Eve
locker room argument over a gambling debt, according to The New York
Post.

Citing an anonymous source, the newspaper reported in today's edition that the standoff was sparked when Crittenton became
angry at Arenas for refusing to make good on a gambling debt. That
prompted Arenas to draw on Crittenton, who then also grabbed for a gun,
league security sources told the Post.

Asked by the Post about the confrontation, Arenas denied pulling a gun on Crittenton.

"This
is unprecedented in the history of sports," Billy Hunter, executive
director of the Player's Association, told the Post. "I've never heard
of players pulling guns on each other in a locker room."

The
Wizards said on the night of Dec. 24 that Arenas had stored unloaded
firearms in a container in his locker at the arena and that the NBA
was looking into the situation. On Tuesday, Washington, D.C. police
said they were investigating a report that weapons were found inside a
locker room at the Verizon Center.

Now, the federal government is
also involved. Ben Friedman, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office
in DC, told the Post "we're working with the Metropolitan Police
Department on the investigation."